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Belonging and Place
Visual artist, Guillermo Gòmez-Peña writes in “Documented/Undocumented” (The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy [1988]) about displaced Latin Americans: Our generation belongs to the world’s biggest floating population: the weary travelers, the dislocated, those of us who left because we didn’t … Continue reading
Integrity and Memory and Praise
For a co-worker moving on to other work… if I were to laud her, I would point to her integrity and her love of poetry and I would quote from Robin Blaser’s essay “Particles” collected in The Fire: Collected Essays … Continue reading
Howard translating Deleuze describing
Richard Howard translator of Proust & Signs by Gilles Deleuze renders a description of a party attended by characters who have aged. It is exquisite. Mme de Guermantes’s salon with the aging of its guests, makes us see the distortion … Continue reading
Vanished Boundaries Remembered
Shawn Micallef, one of Toronto’s psychogeographers, wrote some time ago in an issue of Eye Weekly about a particular sculptural piece: On Yonge Street, the Hogg’s Hollow dip divides the city deeper and wider than the Don Valley and is … Continue reading
Estate Sales
We Are Still Married: stories and letters by Garrison Keillor has a piece called “Estate” which is about a stint as a writer of obituaries and a frequenter of estate sales. He speaks of an editor: But I managed to … Continue reading
Counting and recounting
In A Beautiful Mind, the biography of John Forbes Nash Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, one finds the following passage Margaret Wertheim, author of Pythagoras’ Trousers, a history of numerology, has pointed out that “people look to the order of numbers … Continue reading
Ghost Days Spectral Hours
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
Spectral Hours Ghost Days
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
Cartography
First stanza: We are fooled by the map. Because of the map we are tricked into setting out. Last stanza, also in a sense the first: We are always setting out, as if to discover where the map ends will … Continue reading
Transitions
Adrian Mackenzie from “Transduction: invention, innovation and collective life” Technological change is consistently and emphatically represented in the form of new artefacts or objects, rather than practices, arrangements and ensembles. The focus is usually fixed on new and highly commodified … Continue reading